This rather damaged painting by an unknown 16th or 17th century artist re-creates an infamous legend from the history of ancient Rome. Specifically, it...
An unknown 18th-century artist created this painting of Saint Eligius, an altruistic artisan and bishop who lived during the time of the Merovingian Frankish...
This rather damaged painting by an unknown 16th or 17th century artist re-creates an infamous legend from the history of ancient Rome. Specifically, it...
Brynhild (from the Saga of the Volsungs)
"Now shall you choose,
As you are offered a choice,
O maple shaft of sharp weapons.
Speech or silence,
You must muse for...
Geoffrey Chaucer (English poet, 1342-1400)
"This world is but a thoroughfare of woe
And we are pilgrims passing to and fro.
Death is the end of every...
(Eleanor Roosevelt in school portrait. Date, 1898, via Creative Commons)
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (known as Eleanor), one of the most inspiring women in the...
Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321)
"Of gold and silver ye have made your god,
Differing wherein from the idolater,
But that he worships one, a hundred ye?"
Dante...
